Jacques Debord

Jacques Debord (1758-1826) was a General-of-Division of the French Army during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars.

Biography
Jacques Debord was born in Montmartre in Paris in 1758, and enlisted in the French Army in 1776 during the American Revolutionary War. He fought in the Siege of Yorktown in 1781, and proceeded to become a Major. When the French Revolutionary Wars broke out in 1792 he was appointed the colonel of a regiment of Fusiliers of Line, and he fought in the Egypt Campaign of 1798-1800. Debord became a talented figure, commanding the French army during the Battle of the Pyramids. Debord was promoted to General-of-Division at the start of the Napoleonic Wars, and fought in Germany against Austrian Empire. He was wounded in the Battle of Eylau in 1807, and in 1809 he was wounded again at the Battle of Aspern-Essling. Debord retired after the fall of Napoleon in 1814 and lived in Paris until his death in 1826.